"Prayer Changes Everything" Devotion for Today

April 11, 2023 Daily Devotion:   "Follow God's Direction" Exodus 20:9-10 (NIV) Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.   Life on Planet Earth is fast becoming a rat race and a mad scramble to get ahead that is leaving brokenness everywhere. We desperately need a pattern to live by that will enable us to live our lives succ...

April 10, 2023 Daily Devotion: "To Walk in the Spirit" Galatians 5:16 (TLB) I advise you to obey only the Holy Spirit's instructions. He will tell you where to go and what to do, and then you won't always be doing the wrong things your evil nature wants you to. To walk in the Spirit is a challenging and inspiring exercise, for it combines activity with relaxation. To walk means t...

April 8, 2023   Daily Devotion: "Rejoicing in Hope" Romans 12:11-12 New International Version 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull the pain of living. Oppressed by a sense of triviality and thwarted purpose, men...

April 07, 2023 Daily Devotion: "A Glorious Exhibition of His Love" Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.    As we stand at the cross of Christ we see a glorious exhibition of His love. Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome, “While we were powerless to help ourselves . . . Christ died for sinful men.” In human experience,...

April 06, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Lamb That Takes Away“  John 1:29 (TLB) Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the world's sin.     At the cross of Christ, sin reached its climax. Its most terrible display took place at Calvary. It was never blacker or more hideous. We see the human heart laid bare and its corruption fully exposed. Some people have said that man has improved s...

April 05, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "The Existence of God" Psalm 19:1–3 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.   There is a language in nature that speaks of the existence of God. It is the language of order, beauty, p...

April 04, 2023  Daily Devotion:  "Choose Right"  James 4:1 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?”   Every second of your life, there’s a battle in your brain. There’s a mental battle going on right now! It could be between right and wrong, between what’s easy and what’s hard, or what’s healthy and what’s unhealthy. All...

April 03, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “God Knows What Will Get Through To Us" 2 Corinthians 1:3–7 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Chris...

April 02, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Rewards" 1 Corinthians 3:10–14 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gol...

April 01, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Honesty from the Heart" Psalm 51:6 (TLB) You deserve honesty from the heart; yes, utter sincerity and truthfulness. Oh, give me this wisdom. March   The Bible teaches that purity of conduct includes truthfulness. The Bible teaches that we should be truthful in our representation of ourselves. With what scorn Christ denounced the hypocrisy of the scribes an...

March 30, 2023 Daily Devotion: "Fragile Clay Jars" 2 Corinthians 4:4–7 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious...

March 29, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Light Shall Shine Out of Darkness"   2 Corinthians 4:5–7 For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ....

March 28, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Gift"   Luke 11:13 (TLB) Realize that your heavenly Father will . . . give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for him.     Before He left His disciples, Christ promised that He would send a Comforter to help them in the trials, cares, and temptations of life. This word comforter means “one that helps alongside.” He is the Holy Spirit, the powerful Th...

March 27, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “The Power of The Word"   Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.   Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge. Which way shall we turn? Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the ke...

March 26, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Too Good for This World"   2 Corinthians 11:27–28 I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure upon me of concern for all the churches.   Now that's being under pressure. Paul even mentioned the disillusi...

March 25, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Start Doing What Is Right... "   Psalm 42:11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.   Comparing the acts of forgiving and forgetting, I think forgetting is the tougher assignment. Why? Because forgetting is something shared with no o...

March 24, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "Broader Than Money "   2 Corinthians 8:2–3 In a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality. For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord.   The Christians in the Macedonian churches were servants who gave to the needs of...

March 24, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "That Thing Called Pain"   2 Corinthians 11:24–25 Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.   Can you imagine being beaten "times without number"? I cannot. Here is the awful reality of physical abuse....

March 22, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "God's Anointing Cannot Fail"   1 John 2:27   But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.   This anointing is God’s choice, not ours. But remaining or ab...

March 21, 2022   Daily Devotion:   "Write Injuries in Dust, Benefits in Marble"   Psalm 103:10 He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.   We say and hear that so much that it's easy to shrug it off as "only natural." That's the problem! It is the most natural response we can expect. Not supernatural. It also can result in...

March 20, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Spirit is God Himself"   Acts 11:12, 15 (NLT) ‘The Holy Spirit told me to go with them and not to worry that they were Gentiles. […] As I began to speak,’ Peter continued, ‘the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as he fell on us at the beginning.”   When God poured out the Holy Spirit, He changed the nature of His relationship with His people. The Spir...

March 19, 2023   Daily Devotion:   “Persecution Directs Us to Our Reward”   2 Corinthians 4:8–9 We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.   In yesterday's post, we were introduced to four common struggles all servants of God deal wi...

March 18, 2023   Daily Devotion:   "The Formula of Success"   1 Peter 5:5–7   You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety...

March 17,2023 Daily Devotion: "True Servant Doesn't Keep Score" Ephesians 4: 31-32 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. When wrong has been done against another person, there are only two possibilities of blame. But whether...

March 16, 2023 Daily Devotion: "One Thing is Certain" 1 Peter 2:20–24 He never sinned, nor ever deceived anyone. He did not retaliate when he was insulted, nor threaten revenge when he suffered. He left his case in the hands of God, who always judges fairly. He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are heale...